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2021 Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
2021 Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
The Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity is traditionally a single-day event that is designed to showcase undergraduate and graduate student work. Previously known as the Symposium for Research and Scholarship, the Symposium was establis...
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The Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity is traditionally a single-day event that is designed to showcase undergraduate and graduate student work. Previously known as the Symposium for Research and Scholarship, the Symposium was established in 2001 by Dr. Patrick Burkhart.
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2023-3-28- Symphonic Wind Ensemble
2023-3-28- Symphonic Wind Ensemble
2023-5-2-Symphonic Wind Ensemble
2023-5-2-Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Ableism and Colonialism in International Music Therapy Service-learning Settings
Ableism and Colonialism in International Music Therapy Service-learning Settings
Vee Gilman
Music therapy settings are often marked by multiple power hierarchies, in which music therapists hold privileged identities in areas such as race, disability, language, and class in relation to clients who may carry multiple oppressed identities. In international ser...
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Music therapy settings are often marked by multiple power hierarchies, in which music therapists hold privileged identities in areas such as race, disability, language, and class in relation to clients who may carry multiple oppressed identities. In international service-learning settings, these dualities can be even more pronounced. As international service-learning projects market themselves to young music therapists and students, they emphasize these projects’ ability to accelerate music therapists’ advancement in the profession. However, analysis of visual and written discourse can reveal subtler and more insidious consequences of such projects, particularly in the ways they uphold colonial and ableist paradigms. In this paper, I will outline some foundational understandings regarding Indigenous studies, Disability studies, “voluntourism,” and the relevance of representation. I will then analyze publicly available photos and text from four international music therapy service-learning projects, using Actor-Network Theory to identify colonial and ableist themes. The analyses will demonstrate that these experiences align and prepare young music therapists for broader music therapy practice mainly by reinforcing music therapy’s deeply colonial and ableist foundations. Music therapy identity in these images is white, settler, nondisabled, and aligned with Western music and culture; client identity is Indigenous, colonized, Disabled, and represented without markers of local cultural resources. Beyond identity, these images reveal relational patterns that align with colonial and ableist tropes. As represented in these images and texts, music therapists purportedly give, help, act, distribute, teach, and transform, whereas clients receive, wait, accept, assimilate, and “overcome.” The representations are not merely neutral agents that reveal existing dynamics; they also perpetuate problematic notions of music therapy as an assimilative and charitable agent, enacted by active “helpers” upon passive “sufferers.” They both accentuate and perpetuate assumptions of Black and colonized people as needy or deficient, positioning Western music therapists conversely as helpful and sufficient. In analyzing and interpreting these representations, I will approach the following questions: How much does music therapist identity depend on the construction of a needy other? In representing ourselves as helpers, how do music therapists unwittingly create or emphasize deficits in clients?
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Acme Vocals Publicity Photograph
Acme Vocals Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Acme Vocals Publicity Photo
1990
Aerial Views
Aerial Views
AJ Jamal Publicity Photograph
AJ Jamal Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the A.J. Jamal Publicity Photograph
1995
Archives
Archives
Digital collections from the Slippery Rock University Archives.
Art Building
Art Building
The Hut
Bailey Library
Bailey Library
Barbara Bailey Hutchison Publicity Photograph
Barbara Bailey Hutchison Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Barbara Bailey Hutchison publicity photograph
1992
Bertice Berry Publicity Photograph
Bertice Berry Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Bertice Berry Publicity Photograph
1991
Bill Fry Publicity Photograph
Bill Fry Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Bill Fry publicity photograph
1994
Billy Elmer Publicity Photograph
Billy Elmer Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Billy Elmer publicity photograph
1991
Billy McLaughlin Publicity Photograph
Billy McLaughlin Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Billy McLaughlin publicity photograph
1992
Black Arts Celebration
Black Arts Celebration
2024
Black Arts Celebration
Black Arts Celebration
2024
Black Arts Celebration_S24_program
Black Arts Celebration_S24_program
Blair Shannon Publicity Photograph
Blair Shannon Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Blair Shannon publicity photograph
1994
Bob Jones Collection
Bob Jones Collection
Bob Jones, a 1983 Slippery Rock State College (SRSC) graduate, designed the original Rocky the Rock mascot and portrayed it as a student and as an alumnus at Slippery Rock University events. Rocky made its debut in 1978, when Bob Jones was a freshman at SRSC.
Boozel Dining Hall
Boozel Dining Hall
Campus Buildings Collection
Campus Buildings Collection
A sampling of images, articles, and other items related to buildings on SRU campus and people whom they are named after. Please contact the archives to access more items that are not currently in the repository.
Carl Banks Publicity Photograph
Carl Banks Publicity Photograph
Xtremes Publicity Photograph Collection
Digitized copy of the Carl Banks Publicity Photograph
1993
Carruth Rizza Hall
Carruth Rizza Hall
West Hall and/or Model School